Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 January 1892 — Page 7

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E E E A E

HOW PRISONERS AKE MALTREATED

AT THE NORTHERN PRISON. .,

Will Shular Tells Our Readers How War

den Murdock and His Brutal

Underlings Dealt Death.

Will L. ShularliiiR written tho following per for THK JOIHNAL. It is ii graphic, sensational, and terribly startling expose of tho manner in which tho affairs of the Northern Prison at Michigan City are regulated: To the Editor of the Crawfortlsvllle Journal

Since being leloased from the Michigan City prison, I have been asked by perhaps a thousand people or more some such a question as this: "Well. Bill, how were you fed, treated and worked up there?"' Now, of course, I cannot explain to each one singly, so as everybody reads THE JOUUNAI,, I embrace this opportunity to disclose to all just what prison life is at the hell bv the lake side.

I served under two wardens, .lames Murdock first, and after he had in a most questionable manner, made enough money to start a bank, and two or throe street car lines, besides buying up all tho natural gas stock in sight, he turned the prison over to .T.tiiies French. You want to learn doubtless how Murdock go»- hold of all this money without exciting suspicion. Well, it took him about twelve years to do it, and his methods were numerous. For example, he bought up rotten pork very cheap and charged the State up with good pork prices. Naturally we men could not eat the stuff and after each meal Murdock had a convict to tak^. it off and render it. It was then sold to parties who could tind a market for it. Of course, .Tames put the money thus ac quired in his little savings bank. Everything that he fed us was selected because it would make good slop and because he knew he could have it cooked so that we could not eat it, and it would be left for his hogs. Everything that was given us to eat was steamed first in a brass kettle. He paid the State S300 a year for all that the prisoners left on the tables, and he made it a point to 6ee that no'hing ^as served in palatable shape. He fattened three or four hun dred hogs a year on what the piisoners left of their meals. Many a time I have been so weak on arising from the table that I could scarcely walk, cannot imagine how as many men live to get out of the place as do If it had not been for the large basket of provisions sent me from home every two weeks I would not be here to-day to toll you of this. Another source of revenue t.o

Murdock was the prisoner's clothes. He charged the State from So to Sf a year for each convict's apparel. Now all the time I was there, (seven years, I received only two new pairs of pantaloons, four shirts and four suits of underclothes. My coat was always old. A coat in the Northern Prison is made to last ten years. Another system was to make some improvements and charge the State ten times more than it cost. The shop in which I worked had been atone time a large carriage blacksmith shop, and consequently there was more room than was needed for a repair shop. The contrators wanted a dry kiln, so they had the warden to build a partition wall through tho center of the srr^ -rti order that they might put steam pipes in, to dry the staves. Ho built the wall out, ot old brick that were taken from an old building which stood down in the yard.

The convicts did work, so all it cost was a small amount expended for lime. But old .Tim charged the State 8990.45. Again, in buying the steward's supplies which are sold to the prisoners, he so worked it that he received double the cost of such articles as sugar, svrup, oleomargerine, and tobacco. The State stipulates that these things be sold at cost. The use the provisions which should be fed to the prisoners to feed the guards who wish to board there and the deputy warden pockets the profits without making any return to the State.

This is his "divey." These are only a few of the outrages. I will let others who know more about the frauds tell the rest.

The men on the cooper contract are all overworked simply because the warden does not do his duty by visiting the shops, looking after the men and hearing their complaints. The shops are all numbered. The cooper shops are numbers 1, 3 and 5. In numbers 1 and 5, the hooping shops, the convicts all have tasks. In number 3 no tasks are assigned and that is where tho dirt is done. The guard in that shop at the present time is Tom Kelly, a brute, who for a few dollars and a drink of whisky from the foreman now and then would report the best man in the shop. He does this every few days and when tbe foreman requests hiin he takes a man to tho office and tells the deputy warden that no will not do his work. That settles it. Tho convict's word is ignored. He may have done his best but the more he does the mo'o they want. The deputy consigns him to the dungeon and his coat, cap, vest, shoes, and socks are taken from inm. Ho is left t.hei« for Irom 3 to 10 days, with a piece of corn bread about the size of a live cent plug of tobacco and a half a pint, of water a day to sustain life. I havo known of a hundred such cases as this, •lust before I came away thoy had a man pulling shavings to the engine or lire room a cart as heavy as a one

Loree wagon. It was so niuddv that the wheels cut down 60 deep that he could not possibly pull it. For this offense he was cast into the dungeon. Men when sick are worked until they

drop, and are often cast into the dungeon on the pretext that thoy are shamming. There was a colored man. named lavid Taylor, sent there from Indianapolis for a term of ten years. His time was nearly up when ho took sick with pleura pneumonia. The doctors would not lay him off and ho worked up to the %ery night, ho died. Two colored men who colled next to him persuaded tho night guard to let them get in tho rell w.th Taylor and hold him in bod. But when tho inspecting guard came around at nine o'clock he ordered them into iheir own colls. They pleaded to rtav with Taylor as it was a cold night and Taylor needed constant watching. They wore forced to leave him, however. Tho nest morning when thoy came out of their cells and looked into Taylor's cell ihey saw t1 poor fellow lyi'ig there on tho etone door. In his delirium he had fallen out of bed upon the stone floor ind had frozen to death. Tho Michigan City

Dispulch

came out tho next even

ing and said tho man had died of consumption after having been in tho hospital a month. This is but one case and could enumerate scores of others just is brutal. Hundreds die therefrom being put in tho dungeon whore they contract what is known as the dungeon consumption. These men are treated thus horribly because tho contractors run tho prison. Their money and their influence keeps that gang then that is there to-day. If tho hirelings did not do the contractor's bidding their places would be promptly tilled by other men. They car not for the lives that make their millions for tho froo use of money they legislature from interfering mittee, in late years at least, everdid in vestigate the affairs of that prison. The warden is always prepared to receive them and ho has things fixed beforehand. Ho sends down to the legislature a list of the names of the members ho desires to see on tho committee. They are Democrats he can control and a soft headed Republican or two. Arrived at the prison they aro met with open arms and wine bottles.

of tho men them. By keep the

No coin-

Tho warden has a few old life men go before them declaring that every thing is just ever so nice. Murdock would get these men to do this by promising to procure pardons for them. The committee was not allowed to stop and talk with the men in t-tripes because if they did they would soon find out what is hid from the people outside. Tho com mittee would learn that the men are overworked, starved and cast into dun goons without just cause. Now, I have the greatest respect for a minister, but I aoi compelled to say that the present chaplain is a hypocrite if ever there was one. He never visits tha men in thoir cells, the shops or the dungeons. He turns a deaf ear to all complaints

He went through with tho last commit tee and would get between the members and the prisoner He even pulled representative away from a convict wlio was endeavoring to tell of his cruel treatment and to show a piece of rotten pork. He has ever heard, as I have heard, the men in the dungeons begging and praying for water and while he stood there stolid and unmoved, 1 and many others, who are called hard hearted vii "ians, were on our knees in our cells pleading to God in silent prayer to soften the hearts of the brutes who carried the keys to those awful places of suffering How can you expect to reform men by such treatment? .Tust so long as this cruelty is carried on, just so long will you be robbed and murdered by men wLo have served their time. Men leave that place hating God and man because they are hardened and made vicious while there. Their instructors are drunkards and brutes and cowards.

They do not know what kindness is. It is a stranger to their breasts. The contractors do not want the men to reform, as they wish to see them back again

I believe that the present warden. James French, is a good man at heart and would like to conduct the prison with an eye to reformation. But his hands are tied. He has no ono behind him to back him up, and ho Ins to cover up Murdock's dirt, although it is a bitter pill for him. When Murdock left he took all the provisions to Lafayette with him, as well as two furniture cases packed with such things as he could use. Now I have told you but a few things about the prison. I have endeavored to condense what I have said as much as posible and, therefore, have not told a quarter of what I know. I have told the simple truth and have told it in order that the people might know a little about how the place is conducted. It is a notorious fact that when a prisoner is released and informs the public of the cruelties practiced there the prison authorities deny his story and denounce him as a liar. A great many people believe that he has lied. I know that before I was sent tl«-e when some ex-con-vict would tell his tale of woe. 1 would walk away saying to myself, "He is the biggest liar of tho season." I had not been there then—now I have, although

I was sent there on perjured evidence to save another man. What I have Baid about this prison, I can prove and am ready and willing to do it at any time. If the next legislature believes that it is unable to substantiate these charges, thon let me bo invited to go with the committee and point the evils out There is nothing would please me better than to have the next legislature expose and bring to justice, ex-Warden James Murcock. WIM.IAM L. SHVLAH.

1 suffered most severely from rlieu matism during winter. After usirif Salvation Oil two days the pain ontirol' subsided, and now I am a well nian.f

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The "Musical Amateur Society" held mother delightful meeting Monday fternoon at the ho of Mrs. Marshal ye, on oast College street. Tho ontorlininent for 1 he afternoon was given bv ction first, under the direction of tho loader. Miss Eliza Harmon. Each solocion had boon carefully prepared by lose taking part, and wore given in a lighly creditable manner. Tho eolo,

Angel's Seiv.'.ade" with violin obligato piano accompaniment. by Miss Nora Schweitzer was exquisitely rendered,and ccived a very enthusiastic applai 8 rum the Society. Tho entertaining paper on Mozart, by Miss Alma Metier, was followed by a ten minutes onversaticn on Mozart, led by Mio ice-president. Mrs. J. M. Waugh, in ibsonce of the president, Mrs. F.

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ho was detained on account of sickness. Mrs. Waugh proved an excellent poakev and inspired the others to take art. Tho conversat on was entirely on this subject and was very enjoyable. \fter the programme was concluded, Miss Jamison, of I'aris, Ivy., by request the ladies, gavo a delightful pinna solo, which was well received by tho society. Tho following is tho proram me: lanse 11 rill In nle Duett (lotlsolmlk

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The laws of health are taught in -the schools but not in a way to be of much practical benefit and are never illustrated by living examples, which in many cases might easily bo done. If some scholar, who had just contracted a cold, was brought before the school, so that all could hear the dry, loud cough and know its significance see the thin white coating on the tongue and later, as the cold developed, see tho profuse watery expectoration and thin watery discharge from tho nose, not one of them would ever forget what tho first symptoms of a cold were. Tho scholar should then be given Chamberlain's Cough llemedy freely, that all might see that even a severe cold could be cured in one or two days, or at least greatly mitigated, when properly treated as soon as the first symptoms appear. This remedy is famous for its cures of coughs colds and croup. It is made esjiecially for these diseases and is the most prompt and most reliable medicine k"nown for the purpose. 50 cent bottles for sale by

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